Scott lives in a cheap boarding house at 2900 Prytania Street in New Orleans, where he stays less than a month before returning to New York.

Scott's Myra Meets His Family, The Camel's Back, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, The Ice Palace, and The Offshore Pirate appear in the magazine The Saturday Evening Post.

The publication of This Side Of Paradise. The novel went through 9 printings in 1920 with a total of 41,000 copies.

A formal notice appears in the society page of the Montgomery Advertiser "Judge and Mrs A D Sayre announce the engagement of their daughter, Zelda, to Francis Scott Fitzgerald, of New York, the marriage to take place at an early date."

Scott arranges the wedding and, on the crest of a wave, he books in at the Biltmore Hotel which he had booked for the honeymoon. He calls bellboys to bathe him. (After one of his luxurious baths he leaves the water on and floods the hotel). He uses $5 notes to light cigars and folds $500 notes in his shirt pocket with the numbers facing outwards for all to see.

Zelda (19) and Scott (23) marry at the rectory of St Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The entire wedding party consisted of 8 people - Zelda's three sisters Marjorie, Clotilde and her husband John Palmer, Rosalind and her husband Newman Smith and Scott's best man, Ludlow Fowler. The Palmers were late, so the wedding went ahead without them. Zelda wore a suit of midnight blue with a matching hat trimmed with leather ribbons and buckles. She carried a bouquet of orchids and small white flowers. There was no music, no photographs and no luncheon afterwards. They honeymooned at The Biltmore from which they got thrown out for rowdiness and moved on to The Commodore.